The Gray Area with Sean Illing

The Gray Area with Sean Illing takes a philosophy-minded look at culture, technology, politics, and the world of ideas. Each week, we invite a guest to explore a question or topic that matters. From the the state of democracy, to the struggle with depression and anxiety, to the nature of identity in the digital age, each episode looks for nuance and honesty in the most important conversations of our time. New episodes drop every Monday. From the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
701
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
702
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
703
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
704
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
705
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
706
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
707
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
708
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
709
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
710
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
711
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
712
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
713
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
714
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
715
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
716
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
717
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
718
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
719
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
720
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
721
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
722
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
723
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min
724
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
105 min
725
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
68 min